Women's Studies

The Women’s Studies program represents an interdisciplinary approach to the integration of feminist scholarship into established academic programs and addresses the following objectives:

1) to provide opportunities to examine the traditional images of women, to explore misconceptions, and to envision new possibilities;

2) to provide opportunities to learn about the social construction of gender as it interacts with class, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual identity in a variety of settings, cultures, and times; and

3) to increase the range of career options by providing skills and pre-professional education in a liberal arts framework. Women’s Studies is excellent preparation for graduate school and for careers in areas that affect women’s lives, such as counseling, teaching, work with civil/environmental rights organizations, displaced homemakers programs, fund-raising organizations, political action groups, publications, reproductive services, and women’s centers.

Required courses for a minor in Women's Studies

In addition, in consultation with the major advisor and the coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, the student will select four electives, at least one of which must be a 300- level course other than an Internship.

Other courses in Women's Studies include:WS 225 Women in ScienceWS 270/370 Topics in Women's StudiesDNC 235/335 Survey of Women in American Modern DanceENG 204 Women WritersENG 235 Film Genres and GendersFA 238 Women Artists and Women in ArtFRN 272/372 Topics in French and Francophone Women WritersHIS 212 Women in Medieval CivilizationHIS 320 Women in Early Modern EnglandHIS 306 The European Witch CrazeMCM 210/310 Women and the MediaPHI 240 Feminist PhilosophyPS 207 Women in American Business and GovernmentPS 221/321 Women in Global PerspectivePS 310 Law and Social Change: Women and MinoritiesPSY 210 Women's SexualitiesPSY 215 Psychology of WomenPSY 319 Contemporary Issues in the Psychology of WomenRLS 216 Women and Religious TraditionsSOC 215 Women in SocietySOC 232 Qualitative Methods and Feminist ResearchSPN 338 Latin American Women Writers

Coordinators:

Amy Ensley, M.S., Director of the Hankey Center for the Education and Advancement of WomenPaula Kellinger, M.F.A., Professor of Fine Arts and Dance